9/25/2019 Change App Icons For Mac
It’s a beautiful Mac icon replacement set that contains a lot of flat icons for Mac (both for built-in and third party apps) ranging from Calculator to Adobe Photoshop. This set is designed by Benedikt Imminger and is available for free.
Whether it is a dock icon or an application, there’s a simple way to change the icons on your Mac OS X. And you don’t have to use any application for this, as it is kind of built-in feature in Mac. There are some apps which can help you change the icons, but since you can do it with yourself, using a third-party app is useless. Alike iOS, Apple’s Mac OS X is customizable and with Flavours app, you can also or you can even create your Flavours theme. This trick works on Lion, Mountain Lion and it should work on OS X Mavericks too as there are not many changes, but it is not yet confirmed whether it works on Mavericks or not. How to Change the Icons First things first, whenever you are changing the icon of any application or any file or any folder, you should backup its icon first so that you can revert back if you want or if something goes wrong. For taking a backup of your icon, open the folder containing the application or folder and right-click on it and click on “Get Info”.
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You can alternatively select the application or folder and press “ Command + I”. Once opened, you will see a big icon of the application under Preview section. Just drag the icon from their to the desktop to make a copy of it. Now to change the icon, what you have to do is download your favorite icon from web and save it on your Desktop.
Now hit “Command + I” after selecting the application and drag the downloaded icon from desktop to the small icon on the top left in the Get Info Window. This will update the icon but it will show the default icon until you Restart or Relaunch the Finder. Once you restart the finder, it will show you the new icon which you have applied. If you don’t like the new icon or if you want to revert back to the default icon, just drag the backup icon from desktop from the very first step to the small icon in the top left in the Get Info window and you will set it to default icon.
According to macosxhints.com, in 10.6 the icons for standard Mac OS X applications (or even Apple software in general) might no longer be easily changed, as the application folders are kind of read-only. One could of course change those access rights, but changing the package contents might break the 's signature for that application. And if the signature becomes invalid, then applications might no longer be allowed to access the keychain, will no longer be allowed an exception in the firewall if it's known to check its own integrity (known to have caused trouble for ), or might cause trouble when using software update. (Above, might indicates that I am not sure. Some quick tests changing the iTunes, Safari and Activity Monitor icons did not break the Code Signing, though for some other, yet unknown reason the firewall might repeatedly ask For more details see ). Old topic I know, but better than raising a new one.
This is relevant to the question. If you're having trouble getting this to work, like me, then I found a solution.
A Firefox update a long time ago brought back the classic icon - I, like many others, use a custom Tails icon (google it, it's really cute!) and I tried to set it back, but it wouldn't have it. Pasting over the icon didn't work. Just this evening I found the problem - within Firefox.app was an Icon file, but when viewed from Terminal it had an unprintable character on the end. Turns out there was a Windows line-ending in the filename (possibly a bug in the update) that prevented the icon being modified ever since. Deleting this file allowed me to change the icon again.
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